O'Donnell partnered with Broadway.com and the website’s YouTube channel in raising $600,000 for The Actors Fund with her The Rosie O'Donnell Show fundraiser. Could this lead to a revival of her talk show? "I don’t know," she tells Variety. "We’ll see what happens. I do think in times like this people crave nostalgia and they crave to feel good. You put both of those together and somebody like me who wears her heart on her sleeve, it’s a good combination. So I don’t know what will happen. Maybe we’ll keep doing them on the internet or who knows what TV is going to look like when we get through all of this. You see all the late night people trying to come up with content now. In fact, the people from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert called and said, 'How did you do that? (Laughs) How the hell does CBS not know how to do it? It’s an app you could put on your computer and anyone could broadcast from their house. It wasn’t like a big plot I was telling them. It’s an app, just a basic app."
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